| 2001 | Mary Whitehouse, British Activist |
| 1996 | Art Porter, saxophonist, dies at 35 |
| 1996 | George Nicholas, cartoon animator, dies at 85 |
| 1996 | Mohamed Amin, cameraman, photojournalist, known for photos of Ethiopian famine, fall of Idi Amin, wrote, 'Journey Through Pakistan', dies at 53 |
| 1996 | Ralph Tubbs, architect, dies at 84 |
| 1996 | Sayed Idries Shah, thinker, dies at 72 |
| 1996 | Idries Shah, Indian Author |
| 1995 | Frank Hammond, tennis umpire, dies of ALS at 66 |
| 1995 | Junior Walker, tenor saxophonist, dies of cancer at 64 |
| 1995 | Louis Malle, film director (Pretty Baby), dies at 63 |
| 1994 | Eldero L D Williams, tenor saxophonist, dies at 70 |
| 1994 | Erick Frederick Hawkins, U.S. dancer/wed to Martha Graham, dies at 85 |
| 1994 | Tommy Boyce, U.S. songwriter (Be My Guest), commits suicide at 55 |
| 1994 | William Donald Campbell, diarist/Ornithologist, dies at 89 |
| 1993 | Gerarda "Meik" Rueter, sculptor, dies at 89 |
| 1993 | Herve Bromberger, French director/screenwriter, dies at 75 |
| 1993 | Tatiana Nikolajeva, Russian pianist (Bach), dies at 69 |
| 1992 | Ray Acuff, country singer (Wahbash Cannonball), dies |
| 1992 | Rita Corday, actress (Dick Tracy vs Cueball), dies at 68 |
| 1992 | Thelma Orloff, entertainer, dies of kidney failure at 76 |
| 1992 | Roy Acuff, country musician, 'Hee Haw', dies |
| 1991 | Ken Uehara, actor (Honolulu-Tokyo), dies of heart failure at 82 |
| 1991 | Klaus Kinski, actor (Android, Little Drummer Girl), dies at 65 |
| 1990 | Bo Diaz, catcher, crushed to death by a satellite dish at 37 |
| 1990 | Nguyen Van Tam, Prime Minister of Vietnam 1952 - 1953, dies |
| 1990 | Renate Rubinstein, author/columnist (Tamar), dies |
| 1990 | Roald Dahl, Br short story author (Sweet Mystery of Life), dies at 74 |
| 1982 | "Reverend" Grady Nutt, actor (Hee Haw), dies at 47 |
| 1980 | Thien-an Thich, Zen teacher/Vietnamese Rinzai line, dies in LA at 54 |
| 1979 | Merle Oberon, actress (Assignment Foreign Legion), dies at 68 |
| 1978 | Hanns Johst, German Playwright |
| 1976 | Andre Malraux, Berger, author (Conquerors)/Minister of Culture, dies |
| 1974 | Cornelius Ryan, war reporter/historian (Bridge too Far), dies at 54 |
| 1974 | Pall Isolfsson, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1973 | Claire Dodd, actress (Ex-Lady, In the Navy), dies after illness at 64 |
| 1973 | Constance Talmadge, U.S. comedienne (Her Primitive Lover), dies at 75 |
| 1973 | Paul Newlan, actor (Captain Grey-M Squad), dies |
| 1973 | Robert Ellis, actor (Curse of King Tut's Tomb), dies at 40 |
| 1973 | Sessue Hayakawa, actor (Tokyo Joe), dies of cerebral thrombosis at 83 |
| 1972 | Marie Wilson, actress (My Friend Irma), dies at 56 |
| 1971 | Lisle Nagel, Australian cricket opening bowler (1932), dies |
| 1970 | Yusuf Bin Ishak, president of Singapore 1965-70, dies at about 60 |
| 1967 | Freddie Martin, cricket WI batsman, (9 Tests 486 runs 1 century), dies |
| 1965 | Franc Debenham, Australian geographer/geologer, dies at 81 |
| 1962 | Gloria Gordon, actress (My Friend Irma), dies at 81 |
| 1962 | Herman J Friedericy, Dutch author (Last General), dies at 62 |
| 1956 | Jeanne Cappe, Belgian author (Tres Grand Cardinal), dies at about 61 |
| 1952 | Aaro A Hellaakoski, Finnish geographer/poet, dies at 59 |
| 1952 | Albert van Raalte, conductor, Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, dies at 62 |
| 1949 | Gustav Radbruch, German Minister of Justice, dies |
| 1948 | Stanner E V Taylor, U.S. director/writer (Lucky Jim, Ramona), dies at 71 |
| 1948 | Uzeir Abdul Huseyn Hajibeyov, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1946 | Fawzi Husseini, Arabic High Director for Palestine, murdered |
| 1940 | Catherina van Rennes, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1938 | August TC Kiehl, actor (Hope of Blessing), dies at 84 |
| 1937 | Louis Victor Saar, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1934 | Albert Funke Kuppes, political cartoonist, dies |
| 1932 | Percy Pitt, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1931 | Evert Cornelis, Dutch conductor/pianist, dies |
| 1927 | S Przybyszewski, writer, dies |
| 1926 | Frederic Ayers, composer, dies at 50 |
| 1920 | Mohammed ibn Addoellah, Somalian resistances leader "Mad Molla", dies |
| 1916 | Eduard Napravnik, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1914 | Elbrige Gerry, Vice President (of Gerrymander fame), dies at 70 |
| 1910 | Hawley H Crippen, doctor/murderer, executed |
| 1902 | Walter Reed, U.S. bacteriologist (Yellow Fever), dies |
| 1890 | Willem III, King of Netherland (1849-1890), dies at 73 |
| 1872 | Ten Bears (Parra-Wa-Samen), U.S. poet/Comanche chief, dies |
| 1865 | Josef Leopold Zvonar, composer, dies at 41 |
| 1865 | Rene E de Russy, West Indian/US Brigadier-General, dies at about 75 |
| 1853 | Francisco Andrevi y Castellar, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1853 | Johann Christian Friedrich Schneider, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1848 | Alfred Julius Becher, composer, dies at 45 |
| 1814 | Elbridge Gerry, U.S. merchant and signer Declaration of Independence, dies at 70 |
| 1787 | Anton Schweitzer, composer, dies at 52 |
| 1752 | Conrad Michael Schneider, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1750 | Giuseppe Sammartini, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1709 | Hans Willem baron Bentinck, Dutch/English earl of Portland, dies at 60 |
| 1613 | Charles Philip of Croij, marquis of Havre/earl of Fontenoy, dies at 64 |
| 1585 | Thomas Tallis, composer, dies |
| 1558 | Charles, earl of Lalaing/land guardian of the Netherlands, dies at 52 |
| 1499 | Perkin Warbeck, Flemish sailor, hanged |
| 1457 | Ladislaus V Posthumus, king of Hungary/Bohemia, dies at 17 |
| 1407 | Louis, duke of Orleans, murdered |
| 1249 | Ajjoeb, sultan of Egypt, dies |
| 615 | Columbanus, Irish monastery founder/poet/saint (Poenitentiale), dies |
